The Great Salt Lake is on the brink of collapsing, as shown by a recent study. The toxic dust is just one of many issues created by its drought.

The largest saline lake in North America is on track to collapse within five years, a new report finds Margaret Osborne Daily Correspondent Boat docks sit on dry, cracked earth at the Great Salt ...

California's Owens Lake is the nation's largest source of PM10, the tiny pollutants found in dust and smoke, while plumes blowing off the 800 square miles of the Great Salt Lake’s exposed bed ...

It travels further still: dust from the Great Salt Lake has been found from Southern Utah to Wyoming. When toxic dust reaches us, we breathe it in. So do our kids. There’s no doubt that air pollution ...

The Great Salt Lake is facing unprecedented danger according to a new report conducted by BYU students and faculty in ...

A declining lake presents an environmental catastrophe for Utah with reduced snowpack, toxic dust storms and impacts to public health, wildlife and the economy. Lawmakers are expected to spend upwards ...

Utah’s Great Salt ... of toxic minerals, particularly high levels of arsenic, left behind by many years of mining. Right now, the minerals are safely trapped at the bottom of the lake.

This year’s legislative session will be critical in bringing the Great Salt ... source of dust. Nate Blouin, the newly elected Democratic senator representing parts of Salt Lake County, said ...

The Great Salt Lake is drying up, and its impact to the environment and economy could be major.

For the Great Salt Lake, it might be now ... “Are we willing to accept the lake is not going to be productive? That we’re going to have dust storms and an ecosystem not thriving and in collapse?